Garment cleansing unit



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' GARMENT cLEANsING UNIT Filed Feb. 12, 1938 2 ATT'ORNEY.

Patented Mar. 119, 1940 lUNITED STATES .PATENT -oFFlcE GARM'ENT CLEANSING .UNIT

Carl Dahlberg, Duluth, Minn. Application February 12, 1938, Serial No. 190,253

rolaim. (o1. 15-15) This invention relates to garment cleaning units and has special 4reference to such a unit for use in connection with vacuum producing power sources, the principal object being to produce a more practical and convenient portable unit'of this type. Y

Another object is to produce such a unit in which the work supporting element may be quickly interchanged for 'convenience in cleaning of dierent types of garments.

` Another object is to produce such a unit in which the suction applying instrumentalities are in convenient relation to the garment cleansing compounds used in the process o garment cleansing.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description thereof.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portable unit embodying the invention.-

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of the garment supporting element 3, Figure 1,- and intermediate of the brackets I 'l-I'I.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of a modified form of garment support, readily adjustable to or from the upright support of the unit.

Y Figure 4 is a front elevation of the bracket for attachment of the support shown in Figure 3. Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional view of the support for the unit through one of the attachments of the table-like garment supports shown inV Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a central section and part elevation of a preferred form of cleaning nozzle.

Figure 7 is a fractional side elevation of the extreme terminus of the nozzle shown in Figure 6. I represents the principal upright support for the unit, which may be of any desired form, though preferably having a at front face and either hollow throughout or provided with suitable channels or passageways for communication with a vacuum producing power source, such, for example, as that shown at 2, though obviously the vacuum may be connected in some other i manner than that illustrated.

Provision is made upon the face of the support I for any Apreferred kind of attachment, for example, of garment supporting table indicated at 3, or such a garmentv supporting device as shown atl 4. In the former instance I have shown a pair of rectangularly shaped openings as at 5 into which hook-like members 6, fixed -to the end of the table 3, may be engaged, and

` port I is Ia tubular extension shown as formed there may be a number of such pairs of openings spaced vertically upon the face of the sup'- port I to accommodate diierent heights of operators.` Obviously this table may carry brackets as illustrated at 0 upon its innermost corners 5 for strength as desired. A modified form of support, such, for example, as illustrated at l may be employed, this being in the form of a bracket attachable to the face of the support I for the reception of the disc like terminal 8 of the bracket 10 9 carried by the garment support 4, which latter, in this instance, is of general cylindrical form and divided into opposed tapered halves, the free ends of which are normally held in spaced relation as by the expansive helical spring I0, vtheir l5 opposite ends being pivotally attached at II to `the bracket 9. By this arrangement it is apparent that the garment supporting element may be quickly appliedor removed from the bracket I and readily rotated within said bracket when 20 desired in the cleansing of sleeves or legs of garments thereupon.

Upon the lower face of the table-like garment support 3 I have shown removably installed, a

rectangularly shaped elongated nozzle like mem- 25 ber I2 carrying a screened terminal I3 upon its outer end'and means for hose connection I4 at its vopposite end. This hose connection may reach to any of the intake receptacles,` such as those illustrated at I 5 or I6 and of which there 30V may be any desired number. This nozzle I2 is shown as normally supported in the stepped notches in the brackets I1 attached to the lower face of'the table 3 so that the nozzle may be, by slightly raising same from the deeper por- 35 tion of said notch, moved laterally from said supporting brackets and manipulated as desired apart from the table, or slid backwardly beneath same while in the brackets and when not used. As shown in-Figure 1, this screened terminal I3 40 is partially extended from the end of the table, and this feature is deemed a material convenience in such a unit. I

From the upper extremity of. the upright supof different diametered pipes, the larger section I8 being nextto the support and the reduced portion I9 a continuation Aof same, such extension being, preferably, in substantially parallelism with a garment support when applied to the unit. I have illustrated as a convenient arrangement an intake connection 20 at the free end of the extension I8-I9, and have also shown inlet connections 2l and 22 upon the larger portion of 55 the extension, any number of which connections may be provided as desired.

Upon the smaller portion I9 of the tubular extension. I have shownV as being slidably carried thereupon, a' rack indicated at 23, having a plurality of holes therethrough for the reception of bottles or other receptacles as indicated at 24 carrying any desired form of cleansing liquid. and which may have small hoses leading therefrom, as is common in the art, for molsten- `ing a garment being cleansed. The hose, when not in use, may readily be thrown up over suitable brackets or the like indicated at 25, and that without requiring the otherwise shutting off of the liquid from the receptacle.

I have illustrated the lower portion of the upright I 4as being provided with a forwardly extending base portion 26 which may be modied to suit circumstances but the form illustrated is to compensate for the downward pressure upon the garment supporting elements when applied to the standard, thus affording as t staunch and substantial a portable unit as -posstandard I or the extensions I8 and 20. The

opposite end of the nozzle is of tapering fan-like shape as indicated at 3l and preferably arcuate in form as viewed from the attened sides thereof so as to be readily applied within the recesses of a garment. 'I'he end of the flattened portion is provided with a plurality of cleaning i'lat teeth 32 spaced longitudinally of the intake or mouth of the nozzle and extending some little distance therewithin to provide ample strength as by soldering or welding intermediate of the walls of the entrance of the nozzle.

With such a nozzle it is obvious that a scraping back and forth of the device after being placed within a seam will readily dislodge any collected particles of dust, lint, grit, or the like, all of which will be readily sucked into the nozzle. thus providing an exceptionally convenient instrumentality for the cleaning of such inaccessible places in a garment.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In a portable garment cleansing unit of the type described having an upright hollow selfsupporting standard, a horizontal hollow extension from the front of the upper extremity of said standard and communicating with the interior thereof, spaced intake connections upon said extension, a work supporting member intermediate of the ends of said standard and extending parallel with and beneath said extension for convenient access to said intake connections by an operator, and a vacuum producing unit connected with the interior of said standard to provide a conduit between the suction unit and said intake connection.

CARL DAHLBERG. 

